Re: Links for Speech and Cursive

Originally Posted by whipback

Could someone explain #18 until the end of this website for me? I am very confused.

Originally Posted by Дмитрий Хулиганов aka Uncle Davey

18. The head list and three distillations will cover the full space available on the excercise book, and so after that you take a fresh book, for distillation number 4, etc. Now distillation number 4 will have numbers 1-25 of that distillation on the top left hand corner of the first page but they will be taken from the first 36 of the third distillation which was the toughest to remember of the first 48 of the second distillation which was the toughest to remember of the first 68 of the first distillation which was the toughest to remember of the first 100 of the head list and therefore will be taken from the first four double pages of your old book.

I think this all boils down to starting a new book by distilling each 3rd distillation (bottom left) into new sets of 25 words, and then repeating the whole process one more time. This will give 7 distillations which "should be enough for most people".

Re: Links for Speech and Cursive

Originally Posted by noheat

Originally Posted by whipback

Could someone explain #18 until the end of this website for me? I am very confused.

Originally Posted by Дмитрий Хулиганов aka Uncle Davey

18. The head list and three distillations will cover the full space available on the excercise book, and so after that you take a fresh book, for distillation number 4, etc. Now distillation number 4 will have numbers 1-25 of that distillation on the top left hand corner of the first page but they will be taken from the first 36 of the third distillation which was the toughest to remember of the first 48 of the second distillation which was the toughest to remember of the first 68 of the first distillation which was the toughest to remember of the first 100 of the head list and therefore will be taken from the first four double pages of your old book.

I think this all boils down to starting a new book by distilling each 3rd distillation (bottom left) into new sets of 25 words, and then repeating the whole process one more time. This will give 7 distillations which "should be enough for most people".

Re: Links for Speech and Cursive

I have been trying the gold list method and I have only one complaint. I know eventually it will help me with long term memory, writing is good for that, but I almost never remember 30% of the head list and I practically have to write every word from that list over again. Does anyone else have this same problem?

Re: Links for Speech and Cursive

Originally Posted by whipback

I have been trying the gold list method and I have only one complaint. I know eventually it will help me with long term memory, writing is good for that, but I almost never remember 30% of the head list and I practically have to write every word from that list over again. Does anyone else have this same problem?

yeah, same here. there's no way i'm going to remember a word by only writing it once.. Other than that, are you following his method exactly? And it works?

Re: Links for Speech and Cursive

Originally Posted by noheat

Originally Posted by whipback

I have been trying the gold list method and I have only one complaint. I know eventually it will help me with long term memory, writing is good for that, but I almost never remember 30% of the head list and I practically have to write every word from that list over again. Does anyone else have this same problem?

yeah, same here. there's no way i'm going to remember a word by only writing it once.. Other than that, are you following his method exactly? And it works?

да. I watch my study times, I don't rush, I read every word as I am writing it and after I am done with the list, and I was very optimistic in the beginning. The only words I remember are either cognates or words that I had studied in the past with flash cards. All the words I write that I have never heard of I never remember. Not even within a hour of writing them. I agree that writting is a method of remembering, but writing only once every two weeks will not help you remeber. I agree with this website: http://www.ultimatelanguagesecrets.com/ . "Let's say on day 1 you learned 20 words. They should be reviewed twice again on the same day, once more on the second day, once more in a week, once more in two weeks, and again in a month."